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The Musicians NetworkThu, 21 Apr 2016 19:23:09 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.12http://www.bandfriendapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bandfriend-icon-512-120.pngBandFriendhttp://www.bandfriendapp.com
3232Version 3.2: New Band supporthttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2015/06/version-3-2-new-band-support/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2015/06/version-3-2-new-band-support/#respondMon, 22 Jun 2015 18:10:56 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=713Continue Reading →]]>One of the most requested features for BandFriend has been to not only find individual musicians, but to find bands that are actively looking for new band members. Version 3.2 introduces this feature now for both iOS and Android. But we have been busy the last couple of months and implemented something that goes beyond this feature.

Band History

You can add now the bands you are or have been playing in to your individual musicians profile. There is no limit on how many bands or projects you can list here, so add away. BandFriend users who will look at your profile will now see a new section with the bands you’ve added. Adding bands to your band history is great if you just want to add a minimum of information about your bands.

Band Profiles

Any BandFriend user can create band profiles of the bands they are or have been active in. You can list lots of information about the band, provide links to SoundCloud, YouTube, ReverbNation, BandCamp, Facebook, Twitter and your official band website and much more. Is your band looking for a new lead guitar player, a mandolin player, a songwriter? No problem, you can now easily set up all that and make the profile discoverable to others.

Band Members

Band Profiles further provide a way to list all your band members and if they are on BandFriend, link them to your band profile. This way you can easily engage in conversations with other musicians.

Search

What would band profiles be worth without means to discover them? You can now find bands closeby either by searching for a particular music style or you can search for bands that are looking to add a band member with a particular skill. Last but not least, you can also lookup bands at a certain location.

]]>http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2015/06/version-3-2-new-band-support/feed/0Version 3.0: Major UI changes & morehttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2014/07/version-3-0-major-ui-changes/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2014/07/version-3-0-major-ui-changes/#respondThu, 17 Jul 2014 17:48:28 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=692Continue Reading →]]>Today we wanted to talk a little bit about the upcoming version 3.0 of BandFriend and the features and changes it will contain. Of course every new version version comes with little tweaks and bug fixes, however in our newest release we have a few major changes.

Improved UI

Our goal for 3.0 was to create a release that looks and feels the same across all platforms. While we already offered an Android app, its looks are a little dated and compared to the current iPhone version it just didn’t match up. We tried to remedy this and we hope you like the results. Both iOS and Android versions of BandFriend now pretty much look the same and feature a new side menu navigation.

Tablet Support

BandFriend finally runs natively on the iPad and iPad mini and makes use of the larger screen space available. You will be able to use it both in portrait or landscape mode. While the Android app already worked on tablets, you can also use it in both orientations now.

Find By Location

One of the most requested features is finally here. You can now search for musicians at any location. Simply type the address, city or zip code and we’ll do the rest.

Requirements

The iOS app will now require a minimum of iOS 6 to run BandFriend 3.0.

Release

We are currently in the final stages of testing and preparing for the release of both apps later this month.

Cheers,

Your BandFriend Team!

]]>http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2014/07/version-3-0-major-ui-changes/feed/0Version 2.4: Audio and Video posts for iOShttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/12/version-2-4-audio-video/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/12/version-2-4-audio-video/#respondTue, 10 Dec 2013 17:58:36 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=646Continue Reading →]]>Today we released version 2.4 of BandFriend for iOS. Just in time for the holidays we added new major features to our posts section. The first thing you will see is that there are now four post buttons instead of two. We added audio and video posts!

For audio posts you can now either select a SoundCloud track from your profile ( if you already added your SoundCloud account ) or you can search tracks via SoundCloud. Once you selected a SC track, you are re-directed to the familiar post screen where you can see a waveform thumbnail image of the track you just selected. Of course you can now write a message which is posted alongside with the music track.

We’ve added something similar for video posts. You can also select a YouTube video from your profile ( if you already added your YouTube account ) but probably more interesting is the ability to search on YouTube for music/musician related videos. Once you see the search results, you can either watch the video right there within BandFriend or select the video to post it. As with SoundCloud you will be re-directed to the post screen where you now will see a video thumbnail. Write some comment about it and send it off for others to see.

But that’s not all. If you find interesting videos or audio on somebodies profile, you can post those too. And, naturally the post screen has been updated to allow to simultaneously post audio and video to your Facebook or Twitter account. Once the post is live, you can see the new audio and video posts in your activity stream.

This update is currently only available on iOS. We are planning to release the Android update for this early 2014.

We are happy to announce that version 2.1 of BandFriend is now available for both Google Android devices and iOS. The initial goal for this update was to reduce the number of bugs and crashes as well as to better support recently released iOS 7. However we threw in a couple of extras on the way. Please see the following list for details.

Better iOS 7 support

Able to sign up/sign in with your existing Twitter account

Added option of auto-posting to Twitter

Increased musician discovery radius to 100 miles from your location

Crash and bug fixes

Thanks to all for your continuous support of the BandFriend community.

]]>http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/10/version-2-1-twitter-ios7/feed/0Version 2.0 now available for Androidhttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/09/version-2-bandfriend-for-android/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/09/version-2-bandfriend-for-android/#respondSun, 01 Sep 2013 21:51:11 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=627Continue Reading →]]>Earlier this summer we released version 2.0 for all iOS devices which mainly brought you the new Activity section to share text and photo posts. Today we announce our 2.0 release for Android devices on the Google Play Store.

New area in ‘Edit Profile’ to manage ( view and delete ) your posted photos

]]>http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/09/version-2-bandfriend-for-android/feed/0Version 2.0 for iOS now availablehttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/06/version-2-0-for-ios-now-available/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/06/version-2-0-for-ios-now-available/#respondFri, 21 Jun 2013 04:37:19 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=623Continue Reading →]]>We have finally made the next major version of BandFriend for all iOS supported devices available. It’s 2.0 for a reason. We totally revamped the status updates section, now titled Activity. You are now able to post text and photos ( yes, multiple at once ) or both. So go ahead and share anything music/musician related with BandFriend now! And, just like you are used to in other social networks, you are now able to like and comment on posts by other musicians. There is also a new notification feature that, if you are on the activity screen, shows you right away if there are any new likes/comments on any of your posts. You can very easily pick between different feeds of posts. The app currently ( hint: they may be more in the future ) offers the following feeds: ‘Near Me’, ‘My Network’ and ‘My Posts’.

Any photo that you upload via a post will now be displayed in the Profile section ( see bottom ‘Manage Potos’ ). There you can view and delete photos if you need to. Photos are strongly associated with the original post, so deleting a photo will delete the post.

When you post a photo, you can give the photo a title. Furthermore you can now tag your instruments in the photo. In fact, you can’t upload photos for one of your instruments anymore. Instead you just post a photo and tag your instrument in it. That simple.

2.0 is currently only available on iOS devices, we are planning to release the Android version 2.0 later this summer.

Last but not least, unfortunately we overlooked a small crash bug before releasing 2.0 ( it surely will be fixed in 2.0.1 soon ). It occurs when you previously had the app installed and upgrade to 2.0. In some cases the app will crash right away when opening it. However, you don’t have to wait for 2.0.1, a simple uninstall/removing of the app and re-install from the App Store will easily fix the problem. If that is not the case for you, please contact us!

That’s it for now. We hope you’ll enjoy the new version as much as we enjoyed making it!

Both of our BandFriend app Android and iOS versions got recently updated. In this update and future revisions we will make some major changes to the Status Updates/Wall within the app. In this just released version 1.3 you are now able to change the status updates displayed to you. By default you will now see status updates from your area. However you can also select your network feed which will just display status updates from musicians in your network.

Along with that change you are now able to elect the visibility of your own status updates you write. They can either be public, that means they will appear in other musicians ‘Near Me’ feed or you can elect them to be private and only your friends in your own network will see them.

This is just the first step in revamping the Status Updates in BandFriend and we have further plans to make this even better and more useful.

We are glad to announce that BandFriend for Android has finally made it to the Amazon Marketplace. After a few hiccups in the submission process, BandFriend got approved today and is immediately available.

We are very happy to announce that development of BandFriend for Android ( Version 1.2 ) has been completed and is ready to be downloaded from the Google Play Store to your Android device. BandFriend for Android will run on any device with an Android version of 2.2 or higher. The feature set of this version is roughly the same as the iOS/iPhone version released last fall, hence we gave it version 1.2. We are eager to hear what you think of it and kindly let us know if you encounter any problems with it, so we can fix it promptly. If you are using the Amazon Marketplace for your Android app needs, don’t despair, we are currently in the middle of the submission process and hope to get it on there as soon as possible.

]]>http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/03/bandfriend-android-available/feed/0Website updatedhttp://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/02/website-updated/
http://www.bandfriendapp.com/2013/02/website-updated/#respondSun, 24 Feb 2013 22:55:51 +0000http://www.bandfriendapp.com/?p=563Continue Reading →]]>We’ve just updated our BandFriend website. While the content only changed minimally, we thought it was time for a facelift. While this update looks certainly improved and more stylish it should also look better when viewed on mobile devices. Do you dig the update? What else would you want to see on it?